What was the first hardest fight for you in a particular job?

[KaivaC]

I just finished Keeper of the Lake for the first time as a BLM, and I realized...wow, this was actually pretty tough due to having to pre-position when fighting good ol' Middy. And then that got me to thinking...with any job that you have experience with, what was your first most difficult fight on that particular job? It could be dungeons, trials, Savage, Ex...

...Eureka???...

tldr; what was your first most difficult fight for a particular job, and why?

[Sebazy]

O8S Godka as WHM (Or any healer in general I suspect) whilst still in ilvl 340 gear at the start of progression.

The first hour felt like it was just recalibrating my head to grasp the sheer amount of incoming damage that fight throws at you right from the outset. After the relatively sedate pace of O7S, it was a bit of a surprise to say the least. Great fight and probably the first time since A3S that I've felt properly taxed as a healer in this game.

[Transient_Shadow]

Honestly I'd have to say it would be any of the job fights. since their solo and you can't depend on other players to back you up. The hardest I've had to deal with was the final battle with blm in Storm Blood. It was difficult to utilize skills both as a tank and dps.

[Tracewood]

MNK during Pazuzu fight, you rarely outrun the stupid huge range for Plague of Locusts with sprint and FoW.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

MNK during Pazuzu fight, you rarely outrun the stupid huge range for Plague of Locusts with sprint and FoW.

No one is going to correct him, fine. Plague of Locusts has a big range because there is a safe zone on the boss. As a melee just stand on top of the boss to not die to plague. Even ranged generally have to run in to not die to plague, it's outer range is huge. you'd have a hard time out ranging it even if you were caster dps'ing from your max range.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

When I first started the game? Titan as Black Mage. I don't think I need to explain beyond that.

[Gralna]

Garuda Ex when it first came out as mnk, every party: no melee.

[Muchmidget]

Back in the day I'd say Ifrit EX as a healer. That was really the first one where you had to deal with a large amount of random damage coming in....didn't help that you couldn't stand with your party for half the fight to use Medica/Succor.

[KaivaC]

I still don't understand thing mechanics on Ifrit Ex, tbh. The nails are a pain with all the vuln stacks unsynced... I have a hard time imagining how difficult it was synced.

[KisaiTenshi]

I still don't understand thing mechanics on Ifrit Ex, tbh. The nails are a pain with all the vuln stacks unsynced... I have a hard time imagining how difficult it was synced.

Play all the ARR EX's solo unsynced.

Ifrit, Levi, and Ramuh have the same mechanic of "kill the adds before resuming dps on the boss, else enrage", in some cases, the actual mechanic is harder unsynced since a trailing DoT will push the mechanic phase faster than it would synced, so you have to literately kill the adds within that 2 second DoT tick unsynced . When you do it solo unsynced it's easier to not use the DoT's on the boss and only on the adds.

Shiva, King Moggle Mog and Titan have mechanics that are essentially luck based. Getting thrown off Titan's arena or into the Shiva permanently-frozen state is a basically a luck thing, and if you have low latency, you can dodge the failure conditions. Moggle Mog... well that's basically luck since he drains your MP, so to do it on a healer is pretty hard solo, but I did it.

Most of the 2.0 content, "hard" was a moving target. The first hard final boss would have been Isgebind in the Stone Vigil, because many tank players didn't do the Paladin or Warrior quests by that point. After more people actually started having access to "tank stance" it became less of a problem. The ARR MSQ finale was never hard. Amdapor Keep's Demon Wall was the first actual "hard" mid-boss, and if you go back to the forum posts from 2013 you'll find people demanding that everyone wear darklight or get kicked just to get past it.